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I'll cut straight to the point. I think that the endless categorization of reddit is actually a bad thing for redditors. Cross pollination of ideas happens so rarely now because 'there's a subreddit for that'. 'That' being the most specific thing imaginable.

Now there was a time when /r/videos was good. I enjoyed all the political videos that were in there, and I mean political in the sense that the mods of /r/videos understand it - anything which thinks or provokes debate. But now, those videos are banned, and more than 2,000,000 people will never have their bubble of cat videos and justice porn penetrated by some intelligence once in a while - they'll have to actively seek it out.

And even when they do, they'll be hard pushed to find a community of decent content because there are so few places which don't have such specific demands of their content.

What we are doing here is actually quite important, we need to grow in size, but reduce the rules, and vote hard.

They weren't. Political videos and "videos of substance" are not the same thing. All that happened is a majority of people wanted to use the forum to be entertained and perhaps educated a bit, and they don't want to debate politics on that particular subsection of Reddit.

There are still videos of substance that provoke discussion; there's one of Bill Maher ranting about consumerism or something on the front page right now, which generated some legitimate discussion in the comments, there were a few in the past several days about hydroponic farming (I think) that were very educational and generated plenty of discussion about environmentalism and whatnot.

You aren't ever going to convince the /r/videos subscribers that they don't want to be entertained. They do, and they go elsewhere for political debate and philosophical discussions and whatever else. I think it would be much more productive to either convince the mods of /r/TrueReddit to allow videos, or somehow advertise this subreddit over there, since it seems like something they would be interested in. The only problem here is the lack of subscribers, and since they have 163,000+, I think it would be doable to recruit a couple thousand over here.

Otherwise I think the rules here are fine, and the only issue is the lack of submissions, which can only be solved by getting more subscribers. Figure out how TrueReddit got so big and do the same thing.

Oh haha I didn't know that. Well I think the rules in /r/videos are fine and the rules here are fine, and the only issue is there aren't enough people here. However TrueReddit got popular might work here too, I don't know. I just think the idea that we need to "pop the bubble" of people on /r/videos is kind of an annoying way of looking at things. Most people use reddit for entertainment, not discussion, and that's fine. Once they know this place exists, they'll come if they want to.

In promoting /r/modded, a moderated alternative to /r/TrueReddit, we've found that organically mentioning it in comment threads works best. People who complain about the lack of moderation in TR belong in /r/modded. People who complain about low quality links in default subreddits belong in /r/modded. It's all about dropping your plug in the right conversations.

that's mostly all i've been trying to do. i'm pretty okay with the fact that more "intellectual" videos will always be less popular than a guy falling on his ass. i just want people who want stuff like this to know it's here.